Spacy

Spacy (1981)

"His films are like a roller-coaster. His way of throwing the act of seeing into utter confusion is an attack on the eyes in their corporeal function, and to attack the eyes is to take on tile body itself as your opponent. The film makes you break out in sweat only by shooting a safe, peaceful gymnasium in the dark." (Koharu Kisaragi)

Date of release
1981-01-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (23)
Runtime
10m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Takashi Ito

Interesting facts

Spacy (スペイシー) is a 1981 Japanese experimental short film directed by Takashi Ito. The film consists of 700 continuous 16 mm still photographs of a gymnasium; using a stop motion technique, the camera appears to move throughout the space and into photographs of the gymnasium itself that are displayed across multiple easels, creating a seemingly endless, recursive visual effect.

Background and production

Ito directed Spacy while a student at the Kyushu Institute of Design in Fukuoka, Japan. Prior to creating Spacy, Ito attended an exhibition at which he viewed the 1975 experimental short Ātman, directed by Toshio Matsumoto. Ito was influenced by Ātman to create an 8 mm film titled Noh (1977), which was then followed by a trilogy of 8 mm films—Movement (1978), Movement 2 (1979), and Movement 3 (1980)—the third of which he described as a prototype…

Ito's first film shot in 16 mm, Spacy is composed of 700 still photographs of the gymnasium in which it is set, which all together in the finished film create the illusion of continuous movement.

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